| 单词 | honorary service |
| 释义 | > as lemmashonorary service honorary service n. British Feudal Law (chiefly in plural) personal service owed to the monarch under the tenure of grand serjeanty.In later use restricted to the performance of some ceremonial duty during the monarch's coronation. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal obligation > [noun] > service due to superior lord honorary service1660 1660 Act. 12 Chas. II. in Coll. Statutes (1667) xxiv. 55 This Act..shall not take away..the honorary services of Grand Serjeanty. 1736 M. Bacon New Abridgm. Law V. 45 By the same Statute..it was provided, That no honorary Service, before due by this Tenure, should be taken away. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 62/2 Those honorary services which are still, at a coronation, rendered to the person of the sovereign by some lords of manors. 1970 Amer. Jrnl. Legal Hist. 14 326 A special court of claims..was needed to decide which claimants would perform the honorary services. 2006 J. Black George III 111 Discussing the distribution of honorary services at his coronation..George was told the lameness afflicting the bishop of Bath and Wells ensured he could not support the king on his left hand. < as lemmas |
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